Jon Ward

Jon Ward is the senior political correspondent for Yahoo News, author of Camelot’s End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party (Twelve Books, 2019), and host of The Long Game podcast. He has covered American politics and culture for two decades as a city desk reporter in Washington D.C.; as a White House correspondent who traveled aboard Air Force One to Africa, Europe, and the Middle East; and as a national affairs correspondent who has traveled the country to write about two presidential campaigns and the ideas and people animating our times. He has been published in The Washington Post, The New Republic, PoliticoMagazine, Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, and The Washington Times. He and his family live in Washington, D.C.